Madonna’s Jewels

V Madoninem nakitu Blašković ustvari štiri glasove, ki se prepletejo v pravi kvartet, in pojejo o agoniji na prelomu tisočletja, ko hočejo ikonografijo preteklosti uskladiti s sedanjo. Madonin nakit je postavljen v zaporniško ambulanto med Natovim bombardiranjem Srbije in je pravi postmoderni priročnik politične nekorektnosti. Včasih poglobljeni in premišljeni, včasih razbijaški, včasih duhoviti vsi štirje pripovedovalci, od katerih […]

Hiša mrtvih vonjav

THE HOUSE OF DEAD SCENTS is a novel about a collector of rare bottles and scents in a small town in Vojvodina, marked by “spiritual anxiety, a modest circle of friends, the limitations of small-town orbit, and the eternal apathy of people.” It takes us to a mysterious house where scents intertwine with memories and […]

Nothing’s Lost

Saltykov, the hero of Alexander Kabakov’s novel Nothing’s Lost, is a mature man thinking back over his long life – from his childhood under Stalin spent in a small town and his youth as a trend-setter in Moscow during the Thaw till the present day in a capital where sweet freedom went hand in hand with […]